Normally I try and arrange matters so that if there’s a long weekend, I’m off doing something with it. The way things have fallen out, though, has left me in the Midwest for this one. And if I had anything like an attention span, maybe I’d be making good use of it.
OK, that’s not entirely fair. I’ve been working for a while on a bit of home-brew web software to power a new (or a second, actually) weblog, this one in conjunction with Wendy and possibly others. It’s seeming like that code is unlikely to see the light of day, but aspects of it are going to survive; I’ve recently taken a look at Blosxom and found that it is good. So watch this space for news on that front.
On the research front, I’ve got three papers that are done or nearly so, just crying to be sent off somewhere to get published. If I get nothing else done this weekend — a strong possibility — I hope to get those squared away. I’m up to five publications on MathSciNet, or I will be once the latest JCMCC gets indexed. But that leaves nothing currently in the queue, which is a bad situation for a young and hungry academic to be in.
Otherwise, it’s a long, lonely weekend here in the Nutshell. Sometimes I think I need to cultivate more vices; a good drug dependency might do wonders to allieviate the tedium.